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1. Text Design: Coffee is Cool

I'm not a huge coffee drinker. It's my morning cuppa, definitely, and I always order coffee rather than tea when I'm seated at a cafe somewhere, but really, the rest of the day is spent gurgling down numerous cups of tea ... Still, I've become rather addicted to that morning wake-up jolt, and I'm lucky enough to have a friend staying who makes a mean caffeine that tastes far better than anything I could brew up -- so I've been inspired to sketch out a little typographical homage to it.

I've recorded a bit of the behind the scenes process for you. It started out as a sketch in my moleskine graph paper journal:

 

12-Coffee-is-Cool-sketch

 

Then I cleaned it up in Photoshop and 'painted' it black:

 

12-Coffee-is-Cool-black

 

And finally readjusted it and added a drop shadow and colour, though I'm still not 100% satisfied with it yet, so I may play around a bit more till I'm happy with the colour choices:

 

12-Coffee-is-Cool

 

Suggestions, constructive criticism and comments, are, as always, extremely welcome! Hope you coffee addicts out there enjoy it. Cheers.

Original typography © Mariana Musa

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